{"id":347002,"date":"2026-09-15T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:00:19","slug":"best-things-to-do-in-nyc-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347002\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Things to Do In NYC October (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October is your final excuse to put on something vaguely Bavarian, order a giant pretzel, and commit to a one-liter beer stein in public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NYC\u2019s Oktoberfest season stretches well beyond the official German festival, with cobblestone street parties, waterfront beer gardens, live oompah bands, bratwursts, stein-holding contests, and views that Munich could never compete with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a waterfront version, <a href=\"https:\/\/oktober-fest.nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/oktober-fest.nyc\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_24\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">OktoberFest NYC at Watermark<\/a> runs at Pier 15 through October 26, with Brooklyn Bridge views, giant pretzels, brats, German beers, games, and oversized steins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Greenpoint, <a href=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/greenpoint-oktoberfest-zum-schneider-waterfront\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/greenpoint-oktoberfest-zum-schneider-waterfront\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_25\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Zum Schneider Oktoberfest<\/a> is the closest thing to a proper Munich-style beer tent, with communal tables, Bavarian beer, German comfort food, live music, lederhosen, and waterfront atmosphere through October 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a longer-running option, Loreley Beer Garden in the Lower East Side keeps the party going through October 31, pouring one-liter steins and beer boots alongside pretzels, sausages, weekly pig roasts, keg tappings, and pumpkin kegs later in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October is your final excuse to put on something vaguely Bavarian, order a giant pretzel, and commit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-347002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}